...Those delays, it seems, are due to a key bottleneck: electrical components manufactured abroad. Batteries, electrical transformers, and circuit breakers all make up less than 10 percent of the cost to construct one data center, but as Andrew Likens, energy and infrastructure lead at Crusoe’s told Bloomberg, it’s impossible to build new data centers without them...

Poetry in architecture.

https://futurism.com/science-energy/data-centers-construction-supply

#datacenter #ai #iranwar

The Guardian | Google to tap into gas plant for AI datacenter in sharp turn from climate goals by Dara Kerr

Texas power plant would emit 4.5m tons of carbon dioxide per year, more than that of the entire city of San Francisco

Google has struck a partnership for a natural gas power plant that could provide energy for one of its datacenters in Texas, unearthed by new research and confirmed by the company. The move is part of an ongoing about-face for the tech giant, which once pledged to be carbon neutral by 2030 and has long been seen as a pioneer in clean energy.

The gas power plant is slated to be built in Armstrong county, a sparsely populated area in the Texas panhandle. According to a report by the research organization Cleanview, the project is being led by Crusoe Energy, which partnered with Google to develop the datacenter campus known as “Goodnight”, named after a nearby town.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/02/google-ai-datacenter

#ai(artificialintelligence) #climatecrisis #google #datacenter #carbondioxide

To power #Utah’s #datacenter boom, companies are turning to #fossilfuels
The rush to meet #AI's energy needs is sure to rely on #naturalgas, raising worries about air #pollution
Initial plans 4,000-acre data center site call for six buildings, each powered by 69 Caterpillar natural gas-powered #generators to meet the intensive energy demands. Community will hear equivalent of over 400 semi-trucks idling in neighborhood around the clock, producing #emissions year-round.
https://grist.org/business/ai-utah-data-center-boom-fossil-fuels-gas/

#AI #datacentres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C
Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area
They discovered temperatures increased by an average of 2C (3.6F) in the months after an AI #datacenter started operating. In extreme cases, increase in temperature was 9.1C (16.4F). The effect wasn't limited to the immediate surroundings of the data centers: but up to 10km away
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2521256-ai-data-centres-can-warm-surrounding-areas-by-up-to-9-1c/

The feedback was honestly amazing. Many were impressed by how PegaProx brings essential enterprise grade features to Proxmox clusters that are still missing today. We can clearly see the gaps that were fixed by #ProxLB, #ProxSnap, #ProxCLMC, #ProxPatch and many other ones! Keep in mind, PegaProx is free and fully #opensource!

That said, we know there's always room for improvement. Whether it is major enhancements or small quality of life tweaks, every detail matters. Over the weekend, I took your feedback from the calls seriously and integrated a number of improvements to make PegaProx even more intuitive and powerful.

Your input drives this project forward. If you feel something is missing or could be improved, let us know!

PS: Pegaprox also support #XCP (#XCPng) ans corss-cluster / cross-hypervisor migrations. So, you can quickly jump over to XCP 🙂

Blog: https://gyptazy.com/blog/pegaprox-real-datacenter-manager-proxmox-clusters/
Website: https://pegaprox.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/PegaProx/project-pegaprox/

#PVE #Prox #ProxmoxVE #homelab #enterprise #virtualization #foss #datacenter #manager #python #python3

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PegaProx Web-Frontend as a multi-cluster Proxmox manager with Enterprise features